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📛 NAME

delpart - tell the kernel to forget about a partition

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🌀 Remove a partition from kernel memory	delpart <device> <partition>	Asks the kernel to forget about the specified partition (number) on the given device. Does not modify the block device itself.
🔄 Force kernel to re-read partition table	partprobe <device>	Alternative: use partprobe to make the kernel re-read the partition table on a device.

📋 SYNOPSIS

delpart device partition

📖 DESCRIPTION

delpart asks the Linux kernel to forget about the specified partition (a number) on the specified device. The command is a simple wrapper around the "del partition" ioctl.

This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

📚 SEE ALSO

addpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues.

📦 AVAILABILITY

The delpart command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

util-linux 2.37.2 2021-06-02 DELPART(8)

📛 NAME 🚀 Quick Reference 📋 SYNOPSIS 📖 DESCRIPTION 📚 SEE ALSO 🐛 REPORTING BUGS 📦 AVAILABILITY